Oof, just made it through ROTS with the wife, on our march toward RISE OF SKYWALKER. Glad that's behind us. So many missed opportunities with the execution, it makes me angry/sad every time I see it; definitely my least favorite of all the STAR WARS flicks.
I've had a tumultuous relationship with the prequels: hated them when they first arrived, learned to genuinely enjoy them in the run-up before FORCE AWAKENS (for some reason that crashed Star Destroyer on Jakku, in those early FORCE AWAKENS trailers, made me embrace the phrase "all STAR WARS is good STAR WARS")... but I gotta tell ya, now that I've hugely enjoyed every single live action thing Disney has done with STAR WARS, the prequels are once again pretty tough for me to get through. They were kinda "okay" for awhile when they were fully half the saga, but now that I include SOLO and ROGUE ONE, and have lovvvvved VII and VIII, and have also just enjoyed the first episode of THE MANDALORIAN... wow, the prequels suffer in comparison to all this. For me. Just for me (well, and my wife); just expressing my opinion in-the-moment, having just finished ROTS and feeling like a weight has been lifted 'cuz the prequels are behind us.
Anyhoo... on to SOLO in a couple days. I can literally declare: "here's where the fun begins".
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